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“We stepped on a few toes by not including the newer section,” Mrs. Kidwell conceded. “We’ve just touched the tip of the iceberg."
They explaihed that the newer section of Flint Hill starts with the Four and Twenty Blackbirds building and goes north.
They learned that Flint Hill was established as a town by the General Assembly in 1843 with the same rights and responsibilities as Washington, but they did not learn why it is not still an incorporated town.
They learned that many residents went to Missouri in 1839 with a wagon train. They learned that the town name was a compromise. Some wanted to call it Pendleton and some wanted to name it Hickerson.
Flint Hill once had doctors, tanners, tailers and taverns called ordinaries.
In the early 1900s there was the Blue Ridge Institute, a dance and music conservatory, they said.
More recently there was the Ricketts Hotel. It was a center of activity in the 1940s when girls from Foxcroft School rode horses into town and stayed overnight at the hotel on their way to visit the Luray Caverns. Mrs. Welch said she can
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